The Genres of Genre: Form, Formats, and Cultural Formations (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Heim, Cécile; Pickford, Benjamin; Vejdovsky, Boris

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a selection of essays discussing recent developments in genre theory. It furthermore reflects the current research of members of the Swiss Association of North American Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783823393276
• Artikelnr.: 58260241

Autorenporträt

Cécile Heim is a doctoral candidate in Gender studies and North American literature and culture.Boris Vejdovsky, PhD, Maître d'enseignement et de recherche I (tenured Senior Lecturer)Benjamin Pickford, PhD, Maître Assistant (Junior Lecturer, non-tenured)

Inhaltsangabe

1) Introduction2) James Dorson (Freie Universität Berlin): "Unformed Forms: Genre Theory and the Trouble with Caroline Levine's 'Forms'"3) Audrey Loetscher (Lausanne): "Taking Carbon Culture to Court: Civil Lawsuits as Political Manifestoes in US Climate Change Litigation"4) Sixta Quassdorf (St Gallen): "'I would prefer not to': Routine and Agency in Office Fiction"5) Bryan Banker (Munich): "'The Modality in Which Class is 'Lived'': Literalizing Race and Class in 'The Expanse'"6) Olga Thierbach-McLean (Independent scholar): "A Familiar Otherness: The Trope of Asia in Cyberpunk Movies since the 1980s"7) J. Jesse Ramirez (St Gallen): "Are Orcs Racist? Genre, Racecraft, and 'Bright'"8) Courtney Jacobs and Ronald Schleifer (University of Oklahoma, Norman): "Literary Genre and Affective Experience: Intergenerational Trauma in the Neo-Slave Narrative of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'"9) Notes on Contributors10) Index of Names